Newsworthy Math
A Discussion about Mathematics in Society
July, 2008
Simulation and Modeling
Simulation is a wonderful thing. It’s one of the foundations of mathematics. Scale models are a good example. If you want to see what the new building will look like make a model. It isn’t going to tell you everything, the architectural models of housing projects usually look wonderful, but it’s a great example of [...]
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Physical Data
RDF stores in hardware. Whatever else it turns out to be, the semantic web has already given us RDF. It’s here, it’s now, it rocks. RDF says that every data structure can be modeled using three part statements consisting of Subject, Predicate and Object. Each of these being a simple piece of data that can [...]
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